Roots Vite Plugin Adds Vite v8 Support

Ben Word 2026-03-23

@roots/vite-plugin v2 updates our Vite plugin for WordPress for Vite v8, which replaces both Rollup and esbuild with Rolldown — a Rust-based bundler built specifically for Vite.

Build performance

Project	Vite 7	Vite 8	Improvement
Sage	82ms	74ms	9.8% faster
Radicle	232ms	105ms	54.7% faster

The gains scale with project complexity. Larger projects see the biggest improvements.

Upgrading

Requires vite ^8.0.0, laravel-vite-plugin ^3.0.0.

In vite.config.js, move import.meta.glob asset patterns to the assets option on laravel-vite-plugin:

laravel({
       input: [
         'resources/css/app.css',
         'resources/js/app.js',
         'resources/css/editor.css',
         'resources/js/editor.js',
       ],
       refresh: true,
+      assets: ['resources/images/**', 'resources/fonts/**'],
     }),

In resources/js/app.js, remove the import.meta.glob call:

-import.meta.glob([
-  '../images/**',
-  '../fonts/**',
-]);

Both Sage and Radicle have been updated with the latest version of @roots/vite-plugin and the changes above.